"This is real, and it is happening. A lot of people on both sides of the aisle don’t want to believe it’s true, for their own ideological reasons. The Right has a vested interest in unregulated capitalism continuing to provide a stable basis for economic life and magically “creating” jobs from nowhere. Much of the Left has a vested interest in organizing around labor–with very good reason, of course. But the idea that human dignity and self-identity and worth has to come from having a “job” is going to be an antiquated notion within our lifetimes, and increasingly problematic just within the next couple of decades." - David Atkins